An old friends roommate turned out to be a massive Doctor Who fan. I would like some mindly geeky straight friends, I just have no clue where to meet them. It's not like we have comic cons around here.

Real friends usually are better than internet friends, but I've become quite close with a few people who started off as the latter. There's nothing wrong with that in my book.

Pleased to meet you, lankyknight. I don't have the problem with friends knowing I like Trek too much because over the years I've weeded out the folks who have more drastically different takes on life than I do, although that's not to say differences are a bad thing. Indeed, they can spice things up quite a bit. I still have some friends who have either only seen the new movie or haven't even done that, and that's fine because we have other interests.